@alan @phil Premise - Further Idea Development

After my OGR feedback and some thought about the narrative of my idea, I've wrote down multiple ideas of how/why things happen in the story with more applied logic to the scientists' reasoning mainly. I think I've got a possible way of telling my story which I've been leaning towards, regarding the tone and the scientists' reasons for these cruel experiments on the alien. 

With the alien being unknown to the scientists, when the scientists first start to examine him they perhaps notice that not only can he use simple mind powers to move objects but also that his blood holds something lethal/nuclear inside it, so they start to take samples and tests. I've considered one short scene that could show a scientist putting a bile of the alien's blood sample into a weapon prototype, and aiming it at something seemingly indestructible. As they shoot the target, it completely disintegrates. From this moment on the scientists can start harvesting the alien's blood, collecting it in large containers/tankers inside the lab for their own uses and possession of power. To avoid accidentally killing the alien, they collect his blood over years, until the lab is full of it. As the alien becomes older and stronger, and less easily manipulated by distractions/toys/sweets that the scientists offer, he tries to fight it more so the scientists become more forceful and annoyed with his attempts to resist. They start to use stronger machines/chairs/beds that lock the alien still in his place and forcefully extract blood from his body through tubes/pipes etc. As the scientists become impatient they start to extract more and more from him, which overall leaves the alien looking lifeless and tired. During a low point where the alien sits in his cell/confined space, he can have a moment of hope hit him, where he notices his mind powers have evolved a lot. He realises that he can control water in glasses and contained liquids with his mind, at this moment he has an idea. The next experiment comes and the scientists force him into the machine, as they start the extraction and watch, the alien lays with a clenched fist and closed eyes. After a moment, the scientists begin to notice subtle movements, like tubes/glasses shaking, and then as the room begins to rumble, they notice the contained blood/liquid they're extracting is fizzing and bubbling extremely. As the scientists have the sudden moment of realisation, the alien psychically causes the tanks/containers to instantly blow up from all directions in the lab. As this happens the screen goes black and it returns to the present part of the film, where the alien is now about to leave the lab, which is full of wreckage and destruction. (caused by the combustion) With this idea I've tried figuring out why the scientists would be experimenting on the alien and what they get from it, and I feel with this it isn't overly complicated and having it centered around the alien's nuclear/powerful blood could be told simply enough. I also tried to apply the idea that the very thing the scientists were obtaining, was the thing used against them.

After this thought, it seems the tone/theme of the film would be more dramatic and darker, but humour could be applied to some parts of the script involving the young alien, before the scientists intensify the harshness of the extraction sessions. In the alien's young character there could be moments of humour, learning things as he grows up, before he is 'taught his place' by the scientists. Even then, once the alien enters a darker place, there could potentially be some elements of humour in some of the scientists' behaviours and reactions, and maybe as they receive their karma. 

Overall, with this in mind I'm seeing a pieced together narrative in my head, and I think my next step will be creating a step by step outline/script of what is going to happen, so that if it works well I can push forward on the designs and storyboard/animatic.